I was walking through the toy aisle at Target when I found this thing and had a VIOLENT AND IMMEDIATE FLASHBACK to when JP first came out and they had a bunch of REALLY COOL T Rex toys that I would have sold one of my scrawny small-child limbs for but my mother wouldn’t get me one because they were “too violent and also ate people” :(
on closer inspection, it makes a lot of really obnoxious noises and is also Too Expensive. BUT FEAR NOT I found this slightly smaller dude wedged in the back!
IT HAS BITE ACTION, AND THAT’S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS
update update: I re-sized her collar and found a bag of toy bones at the craft store. I haven’t put this much effort into a non-school thing since my last job search, help
hey! HEY. it’s Halloween 2023! AND YOU’LL NEVER GUESS WHAT WEXTER IS DRESSED UP AS THIS YEAR.
she’s… (WEXTER! here girl!) she’s a… a…..
she’s a T. Rex.
GOTTEM!
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#happy Radical Saturday #dinosaurs #Jurassic Park #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #long post #this post was queued to ensure proper timing
“The Rexes are incredibly affectionate pack animals, so we were careful to breed multiples. Be sure to come during spring time to watch them go broody over anything even vaguely egg-shaped.” “We put the Raptors through target training and now if they are bored, hungry, or just want a scratch under the chin they go to spot near the bars and ring a little bell for attention.” “Imprinting after hatching was so common that we now have keepers under contract to care for the animals well into adulthood to prevent them from pining.” “The Gallimimus turned out to be just giant Canada Geese, and so fear nothing. Their keeper regularly has to stop them from trying to attack fences, guests, feeding buckets, and the now traumatised pack of Ceratosaurs in the next paddock.”
Before COVID shut the library down, I was helping a little boy and his mom find books.
“What do you like to read about?” I asked. “Dinosaurs!” This is common request, but can mean different things, “Okay. Do you want a story about dinosaurs, or facts about dinosaurs?” “Facts.” I took him to the dinosaur section (567.9) of the juvenile nonfiction. He picked out a couple books, and I asked him if there was anything else he was looking for. “Do you have anything on DNA?” I had to think about that for a second. “I think so…but I’ll have to look it up.” The boy beamed, “I want to find out how DNA works, so I can bring them back!” “We just saw Jurassic Park,” his mom explained with a smile that did not waver when she added, “We didn’t learn anything.”
The amazing David Orr and I worked together on this comic (check out his site for more great paleo design). As the owner of two feisty parrots, I feel like feathered raptors are just as exciting as those scaly ones we grew up with.
I’m rewatching Jurassic Park, and I’m noticing two things:
1. Wow, do the effects hold up. Even the CGI! It was 1993 and the CGI still looks better than a lot of stuff nowadays:
Wow.
2. Ian Malcom’s arguments make no sense. Here’s his opinions, summarized:
It is lazy and unethical for scientists to build off previous work. All scientific projects should begin by independently inventing fire and work up from there.
Chaos theory suggests that complex situations are inherently unpredictable. Therefore, we can confidently predict how this park is going to turn out.
Chaos in the mathematical sense is totally the same thing as chaos in the colloquial “lots of violence and noise and it’s confusing” sense.
Life, ah, finds a way, and that is why humans have never been able to confine animals or control their breeding.
Jurassic Park wants to be a story about how Man shouldn’t play God and what happens when scientists go too far. But it’s not. It’s really just a story about why Man shouldn’t house large aggressive animals in a facility with weaker security precautions than the average PetSmart.
Brinens and Things 